Me and my poster had a busy week last week! I presented at the Penn State Gamma Sigma Delta Research Expo and the university’s Graduate Exhibition. I had so much fun talking about my science and learning about others! 🧬

Also, meeting my friend’s students was such a highlight of this conference 💖 @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social wish you all the best in the remainder of your PhD! with @morgancarterphd.bsky.social being an amazing mentor as always.

Jack Gregory explores the diversity of endohyphal 🍄 bacteria 🦠 of clinical samples of Mucorales He searched 🔎 in WGS data for Mycetohabitans DNA 🧬 Then took that approach to clinical 🏥 samples #fungal26

Caroline West finds viruses 🛑 inside a bacteria 🦠 inside a fungus 🍄‍🟫 that can be found in plants and people 🚶‍♂️ This is work from the @lablabella.bsky.social & @morgancarterphd.bsky.social & the RAW labs. #fungal26

Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social discusses bacterial-fungal interactions What can machine learning methods tell us about what genes are lost and gained during the transition from free living to obligate endosymbiosis #fungal26 #fungAI

@lablabella.bsky.social shares how we can utilize machine learning to understand patterns of codon usage bias across phenotypes in Saccharomycotina. #fungal26

I will be presenting my poster on endohyphal bacteria and key genes in their symbiosis, today’s session (7:00-10:30pm) at #fungal26 !

Thanks to those who stopped by at #2025ISMPMI to learn about bacteria that live inside fungi. It was great to hear your questions. So much to do in this area!! For those not here, please check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Or mini-review: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Bhuwan Abbot @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social from the Carter Lab @morgancarterphd.bsky.social Are the bacteria🦠in a fungus 🍄 evolving towards obligate endosymbiosis? Mycetohabitans doesn't have all the hallmarks of other obligate endosymbionts Read more in www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Evol2025

Look at this UNC Charlotte crowd!!! #Evol2025 #Evol25

Yall better be reading my preprint right now (and giving me feedback)

Heading to #evol2025? Come see what the Carter Lab is up to! @ruthwright.bsky.social and @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social will be there and would love to connect.

We are *this* 🤏 close to having the first lab preprint posted for work only done since I started at Charlotte and I'm just so jazzed about it. Also the author list is 1 tech, 1 undergrad, 1 high schooler, 1 rotation student, 2 local collabs, & @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social which is lab goals to me 🏆.

That’s my undergrad mentee!!! #phdsky

The only thing cooler than protein folding? Protein folding into a dinosaur. 🦕

Can confirm. Adding the F word to your google searches turns off AI summaries. E.g.: "how do massively parallel reporter assays work?" vs "how do f*cking massively parallel reporter assays work?"

Dangerous speech - promotes fear - is aimed at groups - harms indirectly - often false Ring a bell?🔔 www.dangerousspeech.org/

Just so happens we’re out of eggs and I’m about to head to the store. I’m expecting massive price drops. Stay tuned.

If the early bird gets the worm, doesn't that mean that the population will shift towards late worms in a bi-stable distribution , leading perhaps to a partition of temporal niche?

Do you have a student who is a non-native English speaker #NNES ? A post-doc? A collaborator? Are you a reviewer? It takes years to get to express yourself in a foreign language, if it ever happens The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Here is a great summary of genomic visualization tools: cmdcolin.github.io/awesome-geno...

Sharing new tools made by Artyom Egorov in my group! 1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

9. I started my career as a digital right activist, working to protect net neutrality and privacy.

Got back my genomes before I was done running confirmatory gels on the DNA I sent in the first place

Fuck.

My friend gave me this mug…

Ok. I’ve invented #PeProMo - personal (PhD) progress month - inspired by the focus of @hoylerosemary.bsky.social in October. I am evoking #PeProMo to help me get my studies simmering gently between now and Christmas, after a period of compassionate leave….

Presented my poster at #SACNAS #NDiSTEM the other day and got to meet so many people working on fungi in ways I never imagined!

Curious to know more? Read @philipcball.bsky.social's excellent new book! And let's stop oversimplifying the "central dogma" (DNA>RNA>protein; not pointing fingers here; me too!). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Science may not be the best career for people named Rosalind. #phdsky #academicsky

Fall 2024 now: should’ve been careful what I wished for #phdsky

Get ready to see some yellow wax cap #fungifriends

Good morning! It's the 2nd day of the semester and I've already said yes to too many things 😬🤦‍♀️

Spring 2024 has been too easy on me🫢

Delivering a guest lecture to GenZs at 8:30am right before an exam can't be that bad

...so who else can do taxes but doesn't know dealing with roach in the bathroom situations

An unfortunate truth I am discovering about myself is that I’m incredibly productive in the wrong context. In a seminar talk? I get lots done editing that preprint! In a research meeting? Time to write my slides for a talk on a different project! Why in the adhd am I like this.

The way my evolutionary biology class went from competition to altruism over the midterm???

Daylight has been saved But at what cost

Coming back to this post that i reposted like a month back: never thought I would have to make a poster??? And communicate my science in a way that people understand???

It is so fundamentally important to show data and studies backing the claims one makes about diversity and inclusion, especially if they are someone delivering a seminar at an external institution.

The elders in Araucanía Region in Chilé protecting indigenous mycorrhizal networks and consequently traditional fungal knowledge. An interesting highlight I came across on Indigenous Peoples' day:

Not me in my log phase on Bluesky (it will last 4 hours)

How do I mention that I'm from India in my bio without shoving my nationality and ethnicity in everyone's face 👀

I'm one of the chosen ones y'all (my two followers)